Police were continuing today to carry out painstaking searches of the area where teenager Jodi Jones was murdered.

Police were continuing today to carry out painstaking searches of the area where teenager Jodi Jones was murdered.

Local schoolchildren have been urged to stay on their guard and consider buying personal attack alarms following the brutal killing of the 14-year-old in a secluded woodland lane in Dalkeith, Midlothian on Monday.

Lothian and Borders Police said DNA evidence from her clothes could be the key to tracing her killer as appeals for witnesses appeared to draw a blank.